Claude Opus 4.7 vs Qwen3.8 Max Preview
Wins 1 of 8 areas
Facts
Wins 7 of 8 areas
Coding · Agents · Reasoning · Images and charts · Math · Long documents · Following instructions
Qwen3.8 Max Preview is the stronger all-rounder.Claude Opus 4.7 is better at facts.
Scores updated · 39 tests both models report · How we compare
Where each one wins
Tests won in each of the eight areas we test. Each piece is one test, so a longer bar means more evidence; grey means the two scored within a point of each other.
- AgentsCarrying out multi-step tasks on its own14Qwen3.8 Max Preview4 of 5 tests
- ReasoningHard problems that need careful thinking03Qwen3.8 Max Preview3 of 4 tests · 1 tie
- CodingWriting and fixing software24Qwen3.8 Max Preview4 of 6 tests
- Following instructionsDoing exactly what it is asked02Qwen3.8 Max Preview2 of 2 tests
- MathCompetition and research-level math12Qwen3.8 Max Preview2 of 3 tests
- Images and chartsUnderstanding pictures, charts and video01Qwen3.8 Max Preview1 of 2 tests · 1 tie
- Long documentsFinding answers in very long texts01Qwen3.8 Max Preview1 of 1 test
- FactsGetting facts right instead of making them up21Claude Opus 4.72 of 3 tests
Long documents rests on a single test.
What it costs
Prices per million tokens, roughly 750,000 words. The bars show the cost of a million tokens read plus a million written.
Qwen3.8 Max Preview costs 73% less for the same work.
The biggest differences
The three tests each model wins by the widest margin. Scores are out of 100.
Where Qwen3.8 Max Preview pulls ahead
- Follows unfamiliar, precisely checkable instructionsIFBench+24.2points ahead
- Real work tasks from 44 professionsGDPVal+15.7points ahead
- Extremely hard research-level math problemsFrontierMath Tier 4+14.6points ahead
Where Claude Opus 4.7 pulls ahead
- Answers hard knowledge questions correctlyAA-Omniscience · Accuracy+17.2points ahead
- Programming problems, refreshed regularlyLiveBench · Coding+9.2points ahead
- Finds the root cause of IT system incidentsAA IT-Bench SRE+6.4points ahead
Every test, side by side
All 39 tests both models report. The winning score is in its model's colour; marks a score checked independently.
CodingQwen3.8 Max Preview
- LiveBench · Agentic CodingQwen3.8 Max Preview by 1450.764.7+14
- LMArena · WebDevQwen3.8 Max Preview by 114 rating points15581672+114 rating
- LiveBench · CodingClaude Opus 4.7 by 9.282.172.9+9.2
- Terminal-Bench 2.1Qwen3.8 Max Preview by 5.783.188.8+5.7
- SWE-bench ProQwen3.8 Max Preview by 3.464.367.7+3.4
- SciCodeClaude Opus 4.7 by 2.454.552.1+2.4
AgentsQwen3.8 Max Preview
- GDPValQwen3.8 Max Preview by 15.742.658.3+15.7
- τ-Bench V3 · BankingQwen3.8 Max Preview by 13.234.647.8+13.2
- AA ApexAgentsQwen3.8 Max Preview by 8.533.942.4+8.5
- OSWorld-VerifiedQwen3.8 Max Preview by 8.17886.1+8.1
- AA IT-Bench SREClaude Opus 4.7 by 6.446.740.3+6.4
ReasoningQwen3.8 Max Preview
- CritPtQwen3.8 Max Preview by 5.71217.7+5.7
- GPQA DiamondQwen3.8 Max Preview by 1.491.492.8+1.4
- LiveBench · ReasoningQwen3.8 Max Preview by 187.288.2+1
- Humanity's Last Examtie42.343.1tie
FactsClaude Opus 4.7
- AA-Omniscience · AccuracyClaude Opus 4.7 by 17.248.931.7+17.2
- AA-Omniscience · Non-hallucinationQwen3.8 Max Preview by 13.557.771.2+13.5
- SimpleQA VerifiedClaude Opus 4.7 by 4.451.747.3+4.4
Images and chartsQwen3.8 Max Preview
- MMMU-ProQwen3.8 Max Preview by 478.882.8+4
- LMArena · Visiontie13131314tie
MathQwen3.8 Max Preview
- FrontierMath Tier 4Qwen3.8 Max Preview by 14.631.746.3+14.6
- FrontierMath Tiers 1-3 (v2)Qwen3.8 Max Preview by 4.570.274.7+4.5
- LiveBench · MathematicsClaude Opus 4.7 by 1.692.891.3+1.6
Long documentsQwen3.8 Max Preview
- AA-LCRQwen3.8 Max Preview by 1.678.780.3+1.6
Following instructionsQwen3.8 Max Preview
- IFBenchQwen3.8 Max Preview by 24.258.682.8+24.2
- LiveBench · Instruction FollowingQwen3.8 Max Preview by 7.466.774.1+7.4
Other results13 tests, not counted
Tests outside the eight areas. They are not counted above: several are summary scores built from other tests, or the same test under another name.
- ERQAQwen3.8 Max Preview by 25.352.577.8+25.3
- AA-OmniscienceClaude Opus 4.7 by 15.327.312+15.3
- ToolathlonQwen3.8 Max Preview by 13.259.372.5+13.2
- RealWorldQAQwen3.8 Max Preview by 12.475.688+12.4
- AA Agentic IndexQwen3.8 Max Preview by 10.139.549.6+10.1
- CyberGymQwen3.8 Max Preview by 5.473.178.5+5.4
- ScreenSpot-Pro (No tools)Qwen3.8 Max Preview by 579.584.5+5
- AA IntelligenceQwen3.8 Max Preview by 4.740.745.4+4.7
- DeepSWEQwen3.8 Max Preview by 2.65456.6+2.6
- Artificial Analysis Coding IndexClaude Opus 4.7 by 1.873.671.8+1.8
- livebench_languageQwen3.8 Max Preview by 1.877.979.7+1.8
- HLE (with tools)Qwen3.8 Max Preview by 1.554.756.2+1.5
- livebench_data_analysistie78.378.4tie
Questions people ask
Which is better, Claude Opus 4.7 or Qwen3.8 Max Preview?
Qwen3.8 Max Preview wins seven of the eight areas we test: coding, agents, reasoning, images and charts, math, long documents and following instructions. Claude Opus 4.7 wins facts.
Which is better for coding?
Qwen3.8 Max Preview. It wins 4 of the 6 coding tests both models report; Claude Opus 4.7 wins 2.
Which is cheaper?
Claude Opus 4.7 costs $5.00 per million input tokens and $25.00 per million output tokens; Qwen3.8 Max Preview costs $2.00 and $6.00. That makes Qwen3.8 Max Preview about 73% cheaper for the same work.
How do you compare the two?
We use the 39 benchmark tests both models have published scores on. The verdict counts the 26 tests in the eight capability areas, and a gap under one point (ten on rating-style scales) counts as a tie. The other 13 are listed but not counted, because several are summary scores or repeat a test. Each score is the one shown on the model's own page.